John C. Carter

John Carpenter Carter (19 December 1837-10 December 1864) was a Confederate States Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War. He was killed at the Battle of Franklin in 1864.

Biography
John Carpenter Carter was born in Waynesboro, Georgia in 1837, and he went on to work as an instructor at Cumberland University in Tennessee and was practicing law in Memphis when the American Civil War broke out. At the start of the war, he became colonel of the 38th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, fighting at the Battle of Shiloh, the Battle of Perryville, the Battle of Stones River, the Battle of Chickamauga, and the Atlanta Campaign. On 7 July 1864, he was promoted to Brigadier-General, and he temporarily commanded a division at the Battle of Jonesboro. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of Franklin on 30 November and died of his wounds on 10 December.